Measuring bioconcentration factors in fish using exposure to multiple chemicals and internal benchmarking to correct for growth dilution

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1853-1860

  Adolfsson Erici, Margaretha ^a   Åkerman, Gun ^a   Mclachlan, Michael S ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bioconcentration factor; Fish; Growth dilution

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; BIOCONCENTRATION; BIOCONCENTRATION FACTOR; CHEMICAL MIXTURES; CONCENTRATION RATIO; ELIMINATION RATE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GROWTH DILUTION; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; MAJOR ELEMENTS;

BENCHMARKING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DILUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXPERIMENTS; FISH; RATE CONSTANTS;

INDICATORS (CHEMICAL);

HEXACHLOROBENZENE;

BENCHMARKING; BIOACCUMULATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EXCRETION; FISH; GROWTH RATE; GUIDELINE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; OECD; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DILUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISH; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; BENCHMARKING; BIOTRANSFORMATION; BODY BURDEN; COMPLEX MIXTURES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84864017014     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.1897     Document Type: Article

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